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Ethics Commission staff reports hires underway and five‑year NetFile contract extension
Summary
The commission's executive director reported filling an educator position, offering an auditor position (pending HR processing), recruiting an investigator and final approval of a five‑year NetFile online‑filing contract extension; commissioners asked about terms and public‑records workload.
The Ethics Commission's executive director told commissioners that the commission had filled an educator position, extended an offer for an auditor (pending human‑resources processing), and will soon recruit to fill an investigator vacancy.
The director also reported that final approval had come through on a five‑year extension of the NetFile contract that handles the commission’s online filings. "So that contract's been extended for 5 years," the director said. The director added that the contract’s dollar amount has increased for the first time in several cycles but that San Francisco amortizes increases over the life of the contract, which makes the costs easier to digest.
Commissioners asked whether the new NetFile terms were comparable to prior deals and how revenue and filing patterns change through the year. Staff replied that the busiest quarter is typically the first calendar quarter and that public‑records requests rise around election cycles; one recent records request took two staffers most of three days to fulfill. No commission vote was recorded on the NetFile contract during the meeting; staff reported that the final approvals across multiple agencies had now been completed.
